Game Thread: Win One For Mrs. Clay

Win or lose, Clay goes home to that after the game. But we don’t, so I’d like a win, please. Last night was another head-scratcher with the bases loaded every time you turned but nobody scoring. And now, our own Little-Engine-That-Could headed for the DL. Sometimes these things send teams into a downward spiral, so all eyes turn to Buchholz to do what he’s been doing all year: winning games.

Buchholz is 10-4 with a 2.47 ERA and he needs to keep it rolling until the Sox get a few players back from the DL. Beckett and Ellsbury have been doing nothing but watching soaps and having tickle-fights with each other all season, while the patchwork Red Sox have crept back into the race. July is knocking at the door, it’s time for everyone to turn it up a notch. Starting tonight.

Meanwhile, our World Cup hopes were dashed in a 2-hour nuts-in-a-vice affair that ended with the US on the short end of a 2-1 score. There’s always 2014…

When you actually think about people like Sean, it's really quite sad. As you say, who can be bothered to troll pages of rival teams, day after day, month after month, year after year, looking for a reaction?

It's clearly people who have nothing in their life. No friends to spend time with, probably no family they can talk to, nothing to stimulate or enthrall them. If they did, they'd be doing those things too, like we do when we've got spare time.

It's really just attention-seeking, like kiddies when they play up to get attention from disinterested parents. I'd hazard a guess that they grew up in households like this, and really never grew out of the habit of seeking attention. Even negative attention (abuse from those on the site they're trolling) is better than the alternative - being ignored.

Sad really, and replying to them just encourages that behaviour. Which is why I never reply.

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OK, I did do my nut at Sean once, but that was an isolated incident. ;)

When you actually think about people like Sean, it's really quite sad. As you say, who can be bothered to troll pages of rival teams, day after day, month after month, year after year, looking for a reaction?

It's clearly people who have nothing in their life. No friends to spend time with, probably no family they can talk to, nothing to stimulate or enthrall them. If they did, they'd be doing those things too, like we do when we've got spare time.

It's really just attention-seeking, like kiddies when they play up to get attention from disinterested parents. I'd hazard a guess that they grew up in households like this, and really never grew out of the habit of seeking attention. Even negative attention (abuse from those on the site they're trolling) is better than the alternative - being ignored.

Sad really, and replying to them just encourages that behaviour. Which is why I never reply.

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OK, I did do my nut at Sean once, but that was an isolated incident. ;)

When you actually think about people like Sean, it's really quite sad. As you say, who can be bothered to troll pages of rival teams, day after day, month after month, year after year, looking for a reaction?

It's clearly people who have nothing in their life. No friends to spend time with, probably no family they can talk to, nothing to stimulate or enthrall them. If they did, they'd be doing those things too, like we do when we've got spare time.

It's really just attention-seeking, like kiddies when they play up to get attention from disinterested parents. I'd hazard a guess that they grew up in households like this, and really never grew out of the habit of seeking attention. Even negative attention (abuse from those on the site they're trolling) is better than the alternative - being ignored.

Sad really, and replying to them just encourages that behaviour. Which is why I never reply.

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OK, I did do my nut at Sean once, but that was an isolated incident. ;)

Sports should be a hobby, a way to have fun. Cathartic in an Aristotelian fashion: "through pity and fear it effects the proper purgation of these emotions." You "live and die" based on a game then move on to enjoy your day when facing real problems. Similar to make-believe.

One should make friends rather than enemies--and enemies in a hobby are not worth attention.

Why I found the likes of that sean charater pathetic: nothing better to do than troll pages with "u suck!" Never felt the urge to go to a MFY page to "rub it in." Why?

Sports should be a hobby, a way to have fun. Cathartic in an Aristotelian fashion: "through pity and fear it effects the proper purgation of these emotions." You "live and die" based on a game then move on to enjoy your day when facing real problems. Similar to make-believe.

One should make friends rather than enemies--and enemies in a hobby are not worth attention.

Why I found the likes of that sean charater pathetic: nothing better to do than troll pages with "u suck!" Never felt the urge to go to a MFY page to "rub it in." Why?

ok so you live in SC? My dad was born in St Paul but then his family moved to outside of MB when he was a teen. I have family all thru SC and NC. TONS. I mean I could take a month long vacation and still not spend a night at everyone's house. my dad had 8 siblings along with his parents siblings families.

ok so you live in SC? My dad was born in St Paul but then his family moved to outside of MB when he was a teen. I have family all thru SC and NC. TONS. I mean I could take a month long vacation and still not spend a night at everyone's house. my dad had 8 siblings along with his parents siblings families.

i was born in Vermont, hence the Red Sox thing. Then I moved to the mountains of NC. After high school, I moved to Charlotte. When I decided to buy a house, I bought a town right outside of Charlotte that happens to be in South Carolina. When I moved down here, I started paying more attention to SC athletics than NC athletics, although I do pay attention to both. I'm not much of a college baseball geek, but a bunch of people in my class this summer happen to go to Clemson, so I was paying attention to this. I like SC much better than Clemson.